>> Hey friends. Windows Admin Center
is a single pane of glass that
consolidates all aspects of
your local and remote server management.
But, did you know that you can
extend your on-premises deployments of
Windows Server to the Cloud by using Azure hybrid services?
Thomas is here to show me how easy it is today on Azure Friday.
Hey, it's Azure Friday.
I'm here with Thomas who's going to teach me how to connect
Windows Servers and I've got some like under
my desk at the office to connect them
to Azure with Azure hybrid services. How is it possible?
>> Exactly. So everyone has servers
under your desk right as for today.
So as you said,
there are a lot of companies out
there and organizations which still
use servers and to have deployed On-Prem service for years,
for example, also in factories or shops and things like that.
So we want to keep
the IT pro is a possibility to easily manage them
and to take advantage of the Cloud to make
their On-Prem infrastructure even better,
and with that, we use Windows Admin Center,
which makes it super easy.
>> Okay. So is that something that I have to install on
my local machine or just an Azure thing? Where does it live?
>> You can basically install wherever you want it.
So we have most customers deploying it On-Prem,
but you can also deploy it in
an Azure Virtual Machine to manage your Windows Servers as well.
>> Okay. So do you have a couple of Windows Servers yourself?
>> Yes. So I have a couple of servers
here like the typical ones; Domain Controller,
File Servers, like the stuff you just have right here on my desk.
So let's have a quick look actually at Windows Admin Center.
So here this is Windows Admin Center,
and you can see here that I have some of
the Domain Controller and File Servers and things like that.
If we have a quick look at this Domain Controller,
you can see I can do a lot of pretty things like
managing things which were ugly MMCs before.
We can now use for example
a web-based certificates manager
or device management things like that.
>> This kind of looks in the same style as the portal.
They've got like a portal for managing
my company on-premise instead in the Cloud.
>> Exactly. So it's a web-based portal,
where you can install it and then you can
also do multi-management for
different servers and users and it remote manages those service.
It uses PowerShell remoting into
background to access those servers.
>> I see, and I noticed that your URL is dot locals,
so you're showing me that this is really happening
here and not at some domain in the Cloud.
>> No. Exactly. So this one here,
everything is running locally on my environment,
it is not running in the Cloud at all.
But, what I want to do now is,
I want to take advantage of some of those cool services in Azure.
So if you run Virtual Machines in Azure,
you know that you can run
Azure Backup for Site Recovery and a lot of other things.
So if you have a look here,
we go to Azure hybrid services here.
You can see that it loads up and it
tells me a little bit the story what I can do and it will
start listing all those services I can use.
So if I go to discover services,
you can see here the list of services are available.
So this can for example be
Azure Site Recovery, Azure Network Adapter,
Monitor Update Management Backup,
and a lot more services you can use for your on-premise server.
>> Interesting. Let's just take
a moment here because I think a lot of people
think that the Cloud and people who work in the Cloud,
they want you to take that server running under
your desk and lift and shift and move it to the Cloud.
What you're saying is,
maybe that solution is not for everyone.
Maybe you don't want to pick up
your server and throw it in the Cloud.
Maybe you just want to light it up with Cloud features.
>> Exactly Scott. That's exactly the case.
Again, customers sometimes choose
not to do something in the Cloud,
but sometimes they don't have another choice.
So for example, if you want to run
something very important in a factory,
you probably don't want to rely on the Internet connectivity.
So you're still deploy a couple of servers On-Prem as well.
>> Okay. So usually that I can get these features,
I can get file sync, I can get back up,
without having to move my server?
>> Yes, exactly.
>> I'll believe it when I see it sir.
>> So let's have a look at it.
>> Let's do it.
>> So one of the thing which we
see a lot is like disaster recovery.
Disaster recovery can be very complex and very expensive to do.
So with ASR and Azure Site Recovery,
we have a very simple solution here,
and if I go down for example.
So let's have a look again on my Hyper-V Server here.
This is where I run all my works and machines on.
I can also manage that using windows Admin Center,
and if I scroll down here,
I can see all my Virtual Machines running
on that specific On-Prem Hyper-V Server.
If I go to inventory,
you can see here that I run
four Virtual Machines here like
two Apps Servers and two File Servers,
and if I want to now protect that Virtual Machine,
like from a failure of Hyper-V Server,
I can simply replicate that File Server to Azure.
So if I do that, I go simply into my server,
click on "More" protect Virtual Machine,
and then you can see that since I already set
up the environment to connect to Azure,
you can see it already selected my subscription.
It already selected my Azure region, my Recovery Vault,
and then the only thing I can specify is if I want to use
a new storage account or if I want to use the existing one.
>> Do I have to install anything in this VM,
that I have to remote in?
If I have four VMs,
that would be not a big deal.
But if I have 100, I
might not want to go and install a bunch of things.
It's just able to do this just with WMI,
and PowerShell, and Magic?
Absolutely. So what I did before that,
I set up that Hyper-V Server and it
installed the Azure Site Recovery H and then
everything directly from Windows Admin Center,
and the great thing, it also
created all the Azure resources I need.
So for example, the Site Recovery Vault,
which plays in Azure, the resource groups, and everything.
Everything was created from Windows Admin Center.
>> This is huge. There's so many people out there that are
honestly they're running this machine On-Prem,
and I don't even know if they have a backup
or maybe they've never even thought about it.
They could do this in a weekend.
>> Exactly. So let me quickly show you.
I already have a VM enabled for that
because obviously the initial application takes some time.
So we have here a Virtual Machine here and
you can see here it says protected.
So when I click on that Virtual Machine-
>> Now you've gone from a local admin server and
now you're in the Cloud because that's where you saved the data.
>> Exactly. So you can see now I'm in the Azure Portal,
and you can see here that just one server shows up.
But you can imagine that if I have
hundreds of servers all of them show up,
and you can see here that, it's healthy,
it's protected, and so if I go a little bit deeper,
you can also see that I
have to still some finished tasks I need to do.
So if I click on that-
>> I see because you haven't actually tested
the Failover if the VM dies what happens.
>> Exactly. That's one thing and then
Azure Site Recovery and Windows Admin Center is so smart.
It takes over for example,
the name of the Virtual Machine.
It takes over to size and matches
it to an Azure Virtual Machine size.
But there are things like the Azure Resource Group
or the Virtual Network,
which it cannot define.
Someone needs to basically explain that to that Virtual Machine.
So that's what we would do here.
Then, when I have done this task,
what I can do is,
I have different options here.
So first thing I want to do is,
I don't want to wait until a disaster strikes.
I want to test my Failover.
So I can really start click "Test Failover."
This would create a completely new Virtual Network,
completely isolated, and we'll
start up my Virtual Machine in there.
So it does not have any effect on production,
but I can test the application if it's
working into Virtual Machine which is working.
The other thing I can do is, the Failover button.
That's the one I need when I have a disaster, and for example,
my Hyper-V Server is not reachable at all anymore,
but I need the application.
The last one is the so-called plan Failover.
Now, plan Failover, what it does is,
it shuts down the Virtual Machine
On-Prem and then start replicates the latest changes,
and then it starts the Virtual Machine in Azure.
So I don't have any data loss or anything.
This is great if I for example know tomorrow,
I have maintenance and I need to shut down my server,
but it should still runs that people can do their work.
I can fail it over in a planned Failover to Azure.
>> Then how would you get back after that plan nothing happens?
>> So what you can do is then,
you can also fail back if you need to do that.
But you can also leave it running.
So it's a very good migration scenarios.
>> So it sets you up for success if in
some case in the future you do want to lift and shift,
this actually makes it even easier to do that.
>> Absolutely. Since you only pay
for after the first 30 days, it's free.
So it's a great thing to
migrate your Virtual Machines especially if you
have a smaller environment you need
to migrate a couple of Virtual Machines.
You can also use that tool to basically
freely migrate your Virtual Machines to Azure.
>> That's really smart thing to do, and it's also worth pointing
out as we mentioned that a lot of people don't have backups.
There's an old joke in the world of the backup community.
It's backups always succeed.
It's the Restores is that fail.
>> Exactly.
>> So what amazing thing that you've built
Failover testing into the UI itself?
>> Exactly. So this is fantastic.
This really gives you the power to
basically protect your On-Prem environment using the Cloud.
>> Okay. Well, protecting them it's not just backing them up.
It's also keeping them fresh, keeping them updated.
Is that something I can do as well?
>> So this is a great point.
So updating is another part of it.
You need to make sure that if you run Virtual Machines everywhere,
this can be run in local datacenter,
it can run in factory floors,
it can run even in other Cloud providers.
But keeping them up to date is really
difficult because you probably use multiple tools.
You use one in Azure,
you use one On-Prem,
you use another one for another Service Provider Auth Locations.
Now, for that we have Windows Azure Update Management.
So what we can do here if we scroll down,
you can see here I can manage updates on that server.
>> That's actually the Windows Update icon
right there, which I recognize.
>> Exactly. So what happens here is, basically,
I can say install now and
basically update that server
and see the patches which need to install.
So what you can see here now
it's basically showing me the updates,
which are on that server available,
and then we can just click on "Upstart now",
but we can also do is,
I can go and connect it to Azure.
So here we are in the Azure Update Management Solution,
and I have connected two servers in
that Azure Update Management Solution. So if you look at here.
>> It just platform Non-Azure.
>> Exactly. So I have my Azure VM here,
and I have my On-Prem VM here next to each other,
and I can use the same update management solution
for both On-Prem VMs and Azure VMs.
>> So it's like running Windows Update
for your entire organization,
both in the Cloud and on-premises.
>> Absolutely.
>> That is cool.
>> So what do I need to know,
it shows me they are not compliant.
This shows that there are updates missing.
So to basically fix that,
I can just basically schedule
an update deployment, which I gave a name.
So I do hybrid.
>> In both Windows and Linux as well.
>> Exactly. It shows me Windows and Linux,
I need to choose that for my update deployment,
but depending on the Virtual Machines because
there are some fundamental changes to that,
and then I can select the Virtual Machines.
I can obviously group them.
But in my case, we're just going to go
and basically select those machines.
So for example, you can again see here my two Virtual Machines,
I am going to add those.
You can see here now they are in the up the deployment drop.
I can then go and do some additional configuration
like select the classifications,
or for example, schedule the update, which is really helpful.
So what you can do is, you can do a onetime deployment.
So it goes now out and deploys, but it can also say,
okay, I want to do a current update for example,
weekly or monthly and basically
schedule that and group my servers,
and schedule that, and deploy those updates to your servers.
>> Certainly nice the way that it's very clean.
There's no real differentiation between on-premises and not.
You just have one Azure say,
one pane of glass to go and manage all of these stuffs.
>> Exactly. That's really,
really powerful especially if you have
multiple occasions and everything you need to take care of.
So this really, really helps.
So after that, you basically
just click on "Create" and this will create
a new update chop and then goes out and patch these servers.
So what I'm going to do here is,
I already have done that.
So you see here I created a chop called On-Prem,
and that specific chop run already through.
So I patched my one machine,
it installed free updates so I can exactly see what's going on.
If there are for example some updates
failed or something is not right,
I can see that directly in my console.
>> So all of this stuff, all these great
things that we've seen that are all starting
with Windows Admin Center and Azure Hybrid Services.
People can do this now. They have this capability,
they just haven't turned it on and setting up for themselves.
>> Exactly. The only thing they
need is download Windows Admin Center.
This is by the way free.
If you run Windows Server,
you just can download Windows Admin Center.
You can manage 2019,
but it can also go down to all the way to
2008 and 2008-R2 if you still have machines.
>> I actually have a 2008 R2 machine.
>> Exactly. So you can use it for that as well.
There were some features which are not available there.
But then basically, it can also help you
to migrate those Virtual Machines to newer versions.
>> Fantastic. I am learning all about Azure Hybrid Services and
the power of Windows Admin Center today on Azure Friday.
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